Mexico wins San Jose and opens the tie

Competition for the three places and half of CONCACAF is more open than ever. The stunning victory of Mexico in Costa Rican soil (0 - 3) Costa Rica threw the first place and send it to fourth. Javier Aguirre raised a perfect game with a 4-3-2-1 stopped. José Antonio Castro left as a lateral projection right without Efraín Juárez and moved as a third containment freedoms. The university does not ignore the position (he played there when World Cup winning Under-17) and chair sat in midfield. Go ahead and played with Giovani dos Santos as attacking midfielders Cuauhtemoc Blanco and Guillermo Franco made as 9 static.

The game was very stuck up that left a shoe by Giovanni opened the scoring in the twilight of the first half. At that time, the selection of Costa Rica fell and did not know how to respond. The premises they missed too much to Walter Centeno, with a midfield headless and without ideas. For its part, Mexico has managed to stand with the ball and two counterattacks sentenced the match. The first product of a colossal gamble Efraín Juárez, and the second, thanks to a burst between Giovani dos Santos and Andres Guardado.

Mexico awoke third with 12 points, and will face second, Honduras (13 pts). As head up the U.S., tied on points with the Hondurans (13), but up the tiebreaker match each other. Costa Rica is fourth, and temporarily, would be the team to play the play-offs before Conmebol. U.S. visit to Trinidad and Tobago, while Costa Rica will play in El Salvador. The Aztecs could dawn of Hexagonal first, provided the U.S. does not win in Port of Spain. It is a fact that neither T & T or go to El Salvador World Cup, but his battles will be critical, as any item that will be costly snatch. Who will finish in the dreaded fourth place CONCACAF?

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